Les Deux mémoires/The Two Memories (Jorge Semprún, 1972 - ENG & ESP SUB)

Les Deux mémoires (English: The Two Memories) is a 1972 Documentary Film by Jorge Semprún. Audio in French (mostly) and Spanish, with English and Spanish subtitles (click on CC for subtitles).

The Two Memories , "an investigation into Republican and Francoist memories", in the words of Jorge Semprún, is built around interviews conducted in 1972 in France and Spain, archive images of the Civil War and news from the Francoist period.

The documentary is divided into five chapters:
1. February 1939. The exile begins;
2. July 1936. War and revolution in Spain;
3. 1931-1935. The Bourgeois Republic. Origins of the Civil War;
4. Soviet aid to Republican Spain;
5. March 1939. The Spanish Civil War is over.

With the testimonies of Federica Montseny (leader of the CNT, anarchist), Santiago Carrillo (general secretary of the PCE, communist), José Peirats (leader of the CNT), Maria Casarès (actress), Gabriel Jackson (historian), Fernando Claudín ( former secretary of the PCE), José María Gil-Robles (former leader of the CEDA, conservative), Lucio Losa (former activist of the JSU, left), José Menese ( flamenco cantaor ), Ian Gibson (writer and teacher), Wilebaldo Solano (leader of the POUM, Marxist), Juan Andrade (leader of the POUM), Manuel de Irujo (advisor to the Basque government in exile), Juan Goytisolo (novelist), Núria Espert (actress), José Martin Artajo (writer), André Malraux (writer), Lucy Durán (musicologist), Carmen Claudín (student), Simón Sanchez Montero (leader of the PCE), Dionisio Ridruejo (writer, former leader of the Spanish Phalange), Xavier Domingo (writer), the abbot of Montserrat, Raimon (singer), Yves Montand (actor).

Film restored in 2010 by the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the Filmoteca Española and the Cinémathèque Française with the support of Jorge Semprún from the original elements preserved by the LTC laboratory. The analysis of these elements and a copy preserved at the Cinémathèque Française made it possible to reconstruct a version faithful to the one that had been discovered in theaters by the French public in 1974. This new print was produced in 2012 by the Éclair laboratory.